Letters

0 commentsThank you so much for your article about pit bulls [Cover story, "Rescued," April 3, 2003] (http://www.readthehook.com/93261/cover-story-pits-dogfightings-bloody-af...). I am a proud owner of an...

0 comments[Re: "Road protest: Resistance was futile," March 27, 2003] (http://www.readthehook.com/93240/news-road-protest-resistance-was-futile) Freedom of speech is an interesting American right. It is used...

0 commentsThanks for your story on the shocking experience at the Pantops Giant. I thought it was only me, as it hasn't happened to my wife. In the winter I had a couple of shocks that deadened my arm for a...

0 commentsThe Hook could have picked no more deserving writer to honor for its fiction contest [March 13, 2003] this year than Deborah Prum (http://www.readthehook.com/93163/cover-story-fiction-contest-winner...

0 commentsIn the 1960s, the FBI trained thousands of undercover operatives on campuses such as Berkeley to infiltrate the antiwar movement. It is also known that in a more recent decade the FBI infiltrated...

0 commentsI'm a taxpaying man, owner of C&S Motors, sick and tired of being bothered by Scottsville's city council and their hired guns. Ever since the talk of big bucks coming to town began, they've been...

0 commentsThanks a million goes to Rebecca Beirne, Marcus Hahn, the Hogwaller Ramblers, and all the birthday party-goers who attended Sidney Tapscott's 80th.
Sidney talked about the party two weeks ahead of...

0 commentsI am writing in regard to your article about housing. [March 20: "Crowded house: It may be cozy, but should it be illegal?"] (http://www.readthehook.com/93193/cover-crowded-house-it-may-be-cozy-shou...

0 commentsIn the article "Freebie no more" [News, March 13] about Fridays After 5 charging admission, organizer Tony LaBua, was quoted as saying, "We are the only venue in the state that hasn't charged."...

0 commentsIn your otherwise excellent article on the negative impacts of student housing on residential neighborhoods around UVA ["Crowded house: It may be cozy, but should it be illegal?" March 20] (http://...

0 commentsI cannot even begin to tell you how bad an idea I think the proposed changes to "Fridays After Five" are [News, "Freebie no more," March 13] (http://www.readthehook.com/93178/news-freebie-no-more-...

0 commentsWhat a shame to put an end to a great family event. Because that's what will happen if the Charlottesville Downtown Foundation starts charging admission and banning food from anyone other than...

0 commentsI simply have to comment on Phoebe Weiskopf's answer to your "Question of the Week" about the much loved Mr. Rogers [March 6] (http://www.readthehook.com/93153/question-week-what-did-you-think-mr-...

0 commentsAs a fellow military veteran, I'm disappointed to hear Emery Skeen's misrepresentation of the democratic process through which Scottsville's zoning regulations were long ago enacted and are still...

0 commentsAs a local public educator, I read your story about zero tolerance policies with interest. [March 6: "Zero tolerance=zero common sense?"] (http://www.readthehook.com/93150/news-zero-tolerancezero-...

0 commentsExcellent article on the "soccer mom" in trouble [Cover story, "Eight years for a 'minor' offense?" February 20] (http://www.readthehook.com/93079/cover-story-eight-years-minor-offense). I am making...

0 commentsEight years for a son's 16th birthday party where beer was served is way too severe a sentence. [February 20 cover story: "Eight years: for a 'minor' offense?"] (http://www.readthehook.com/93079/...

0 commentsI'm not sure what crime Bob Weitzner committed, but there must be a severe shortage of bad guys in Charlottesville for Bob to merit two columns by the Fearless Consumer ["Over-Exposured," February...

0 commentsHi, my name is James Ralston, a member of Last Days of May, whose album "Inner System Blues" Amy Briggs recently reviewed (quite positively, and thanks!) [Prowl: "LDOM: Organic music with soul,"...

0 commentsAt my house, or probably anyone's house, if I wanted to build a new indoor basketball court because my old one seemed small compared to the neighbors', and then add room for a lot of additional...